Does a prison security measure in a maximum security unit violate the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Harbridge v. Hickman, Case No. 1:10-cv-00473-AWI-JLT (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2016):

The unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain violates the cruel and unusual punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment. Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 5 (1992). When a prison security measure is undertaken in response to an incident, the question of whether it inflicted unnecessary and wanton pain and suffering depends on "whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm." Id. at 6.

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